Author Archives: Dalton Kemper
Local COVID roundup 1/8: 13 area deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Friday reported 13 new area deaths due to COVID-19 throughout Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties. Of those, more than half were residents o...
Jan 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 1/8: Nearly 10,000 new cases
SPRINGFIELD Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported 9,277 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 126 additional deaths. As of Thursday nigh...
Jan 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
Trump acknowledges Biden victory; concedes election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) --President Donald Trump conceded for the first time on Thursday that Joe Biden will be the next U.S. president, a day after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress wa...
Jan 07, 2021 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. lawmaker draws up impeachment papers on Trump after mobs storm capital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic congresswoman on Wednesday said she was drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after mobs broke into the U.S. Capitol following Trump's ur...
Jan 06, 2021 REUTERS/Eric Miller/File Photo
Gov. JB Pritzker calls for impeachment of President Trump
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After riots broke out in Washington, D.C. Wednesday during the certification of the Electoral College, Gov. JB Pritzker has called on Congress to impeach and remove President Dona...
Jan 06, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 1/6: Still meeting all criteria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Wednesday reported 212 new cases of COVID-19 throughout the tri-county of Peoria, Woodford and Tazewell. In addition, six deaths were also repo...
Jan 06, 2021 Midwest Communications
East Peoria City Council celebrates FOLEPI; approves purchase of more lights
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Less than 10 days before Christmas, East Peoria's Festival of Lights won ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight" and the grand prize of $50,000 in the heavyweight division. "For u...
Jan 05, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Police investigating two shootings an hour apart in Galesburg
GALESBURG, Ill. -- Galesburg Police responded Monday to two separate shootings that took place approximately an hour apart. The first shooting, which occurred around 4 p.m., involved a shooting in the...
Jan 04, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden promises 'new day,' Trump heads to Georgia on eve of pivotal Senate runoffs
ATLANTA (Reuters) -President-elect Joe Biden urged Georgia voters on Monday to send two Democrats to Washington in Tuesday runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, while President Donald T...
Jan 04, 2021 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
McConnell thwarts Trump bid for $2,000 stimulus checks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans, declining to schedule a swift Sen...
Dec 30, 2020 REUTERS/Leah Millis
